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So in his tone reon feeds on horse and sheep alike"

Khal Drogo srows!" he said "It isher with his fire Ride slowly, Qothoif the mother does not burn you where you sit, the son will traue and find another la to my khaleesi" He started to reach out a hand to Daenerys, but as he lifted his arrimaced in sudden pain and turned his head

Dany could alony The wounds orse than Ser Jorah had led her to believe "Where are the healers?" she demanded The khalasar had two sorts: barren women and eunuch slaves The herbwomen dealt in potions and spells, the eunuchs in knife, needle, and fire "Why do they not attend the khal?"

"The khal sent the hairless men away, Khaleesi," old Cohollo assured her Dany saw the bloodrider had taken a wound hiash in his left shoulder

"Many riders are hurt," Khal Drogo said stubbornly "Let them be healed first This arrow is no more than the bite of a fly, this little cut only a new scar to boast of to my son"

Dany could see the muscles in his chest where the skin had been cut away A trickle of blood ran froo to wait," she proclai them here at once"

"Silver Lady," a woman’s voice said behind her, "I can help the Great Rider with his hurts"

Dany turned her head The speaker was one of the slaves she had claimed, the heavy, flat-nosed woman who had blessed her

"The khal needs no help froo, cut out her tongue"

Aggo grabbed her hair and pressed a knife to her throat

Dany lifted a hand "No She is o looked from her to Qotho He lowered his knife

"I , fierce riders" The woman spoke Dothraki well The robes she wore had once been the lightest and finest of woolens, rich with embroidery, but now they were mud-caked and bloody and ripped She clutched the torn cloth of her bodice to her heavy breasts "I have so arts"

"Who are you?" Dany asked her

"I aodswife of this te his arakh His look was dark Dany re story that Jhiqui had told her one night by the cookfire A i was a woman who lay with de, evil and soulless, who cath from their bodies

"I am a healer," Mirri Maz Duur said

"A healer of sheeps," sneered Qotho "Blood of i and wait for the hairless nored the bloodrider’s outburst This old, hoi to her "Where did you learn your healing, Mirri Maz Duur?"

"My s and spellsto the Great Shepherd, and how to make the sacred smokes and ointer and more fair, I went in caravan to Asshai by the Shadow, to learn froered long to study the healing ways of distant peoples A s, a worass and corn and horse, and a maester from the Sunset Lands opened a body for me and showed me all the secrets that hide beneath the skin"

Ser Jorah Mormont spoke up "A maester?"

"Marwyn, he naue "From the sea Beyond the sea The Seven Lands, he said Sunset Lands Where ht me this speech"

"A maester in Asshai," Ser Jorah mused "Tell me, Godswife, what did this Marear about his neck?"

"A chain so tight it was like to choke him, Iron Lord, with links of ht looked at Dany "Only a man trained in the Citadel of Oldtoears such a chain," he said, "and such "

"Why should you want to help my khal?"

"All ht," replied Mirri Maz Duur "The Great Shepherd sent ht find the slap "We are no sheep, rily "She is runted "The arrow must come out, Qotho"

"Yes, Great Rider," Mirri Maz Duur answered, touching her bruised face "And your breast must be washed and sewn, lest the wound fester"

"Do it, then," Khal Drogo commanded

"Great Rider," the wood’s house, where the healing powers are strongest"

"I will carry you, blood of o waved him away "I need no man’s help," he said, in a voice proud and hard He stood, unaided, towering over them all A fresh wave of blood ran down his breast, froo’s arakh had cut off his nipple Dany moved quickly to his side "I ao put a huge hand on her shoulder She took soreat mud temple The three bloodriders followed Dany couard the entrance andafire while they were still inside

They passed through a series of anterooht shone down through hidden s above A few torches burnt smokily from sconces on the walls Sheepskins were scattered across theto the altar, a es of shepherds and their flocks Khal Drogo lay upon it The old wo the charant smoke "Best if you wait outside," she told the rest of them

"We are blood of his blood," Cohollo said "Here ait"

Qotho stepped close to Mirri Maz Duur "Know this, wife of the Lamb God Har knife and showed her the blade

"She will do no harm" Dany felt she could trust this old, plainfaced woman with her flat nose; she had saved her from the hard hands of her rapers, after all

"If you must stay, then help," Mirri told the bloodriders "The Great Rider is too strong for me Hold him still while I draw the arrow froown fall to her waist as she opened a carved chest, and busied herself with bottles and boxes, knives and needles When she was ready, she broke off the barbed arrowhead and pulled out the shaft, chanting in the singsong tongue of the Lhazareen She heated a flagon of wine to boiling on the brazier, and poured it over his wounds Khal Drogo cursed her, but he did not move She bound the arroound with a plaster of wet leaves and turned to the gash on his breast, sreen paste before she pulled the flap of skin back in place The khal ground his teeth together and sed a screaodswife took out a silver needle and a bobbin of silk thread and began to close the flesh When she was done she painted the skin with red ointment, covered it with ed piece of laive you and keep the lahts," she said "There will be fever, and itching, and a great scar when the healing is done"

Khal Drogo sat, bells ringing "I sing of my scars, sheep woman" He flexed his arm and scowled

"Drink neither wine nor the milk of the poppy," she cautioned hi to fight the poison spirits"

"I ao said "I spit on pain and drink what I like Cohollo, bring my vest" The older ly Lhazareen wos"

"I know every secret of the bloody bed, Silver Lady, nor have I ever lost a babe," Mirri Maz Duur replied

"My time is near," Dany said "I would have you attend hed "Moon of my life, you do not ask a slave, you tell her She will do as you command" He jumped down from the altar "Come, my blood The stallions call, this place is ashes It is tio followed the khal froh to favor Mirri Maz Duur with a stare "Rei, as the khal fares, so shall you"

"As you say, rider," the wo up her jars and bottles "The Great Shepherd guards the flock"